Posts Tagged ‘History’
‘How to bring to life a totally unknown cook?’
Our resident food historian dips into author Vicky Hayward’s ‘brilliant’ revival of an 18th-century friar and his recipes
Read More‘Best form of transport’: New walking map of Hackney Central celebrates borough’s ‘fascinating and diverse’ history
Hackney Central Footways, available online and in print for free, is designed to encourage people to explore on foot
Read MoreThe Pies Have It
Our resident food historian on a British staple and its place in Victorian Christmas feasts
Read More‘Unique experience’: V&A East is bringing museum artefacts into East London schools for first time ever
The museum is working in the community ahead of the opening of its new site in 2024
Read MoreChapter of Accidents: A Writer’s Memoir, Alexander Baron, book review: ‘Portrait of a man keen to be accepted but feeling himself apart’
Launched at Hackney Archives last month, these memoirs were said by the late novelist to ‘hold the key to his writing’
Read MoreA Child of the East End, Jean Fullerton, book review: ‘Highly entertaining tale of growing up in Stepney’
Fullerton’s memoir will ‘resonate with many’ who lived through the social change of the late 20th-century
Read More‘Face our shared history with honesty’: Hackney to play host to major art initiative on transatlantic slave trade
The World Reimagined will create educational walking trails featuring works by high-profile artists
Read MoreNew exhibition commemorates life under lockdown in Hackney
Free display at Hackney Museum uses residents’ donated items and professional photos to chart the borough’s response to the pandemic
Read More‘Euphoria and trauma’: Filmmaker Sutapa Biswas explores colonial histories in new solo show in Shoreditch
The multidisciplinary artist’s critically acclaimed film ‘Lumen’ is being shown at Autograph gallery until 4 June
Read MoreVan Gogh: The Immersive Experience, Tower Hamlets, review: ‘One of art’s most enigmatic icons brought to life’
Virtual reality and 360-degree projections offer an ‘intimate’ view of the artist for fans and newcomers alike
Read MoreHackney’s role in stranger-than-fiction wartime escapade commemorated with plaque
Local mortuary’s involvement in Operation Mincemeat brought to wider audience by Hackney-born historian
Read MoreOldhill School celebrates its new name and logo with kite-flying day – as another local link to slavery is excised
The school was formerly know as Tyssen after a 17th-century slave owner who bought up land in Hackney
Read MorePawtraiture
Our resident food historian Gillian Riley on Manet, Monet and mousers
Read MorePuppy-dog explosion and vanishing kittens
Our resident food historian touches on a culinary taboo as she ponders the proliferation of dog-walkers during the pandemic
Read MoreWhat did you eat during Covid, Daddy?
Our resident food historian returns to explore child hunger and ask what we can learn from scenes painted by artists of the past
Read MoreLondon’s water
Our resident food historian on how the capital went from epidemics caused by faulty sewage to enjoying one of the safest tipples around
Read MoreFrom reservoirs left to nature to ghost platforms – take a walk through East London’s industrial past
April is a perfect time to seek out the rich history of the Lea Valley and its surrounds
Read MoreLemongrass
A Dutch master leads our resident food historian deeper into the world of citrus
Read MoreWomen from Hackney’s History, Hackney Society, book review: ‘Testimony to how high women can rise’
This celebration for the upcoming Women’s History Month delves into the achievements of 113 women with connections to the borough
Read MoreThat’s amaro
Our resident food historian on how, with a bit of love and care, you can lift up the throwaways of citrus fruit – pips, pith, peel and all – to their fresh and bitter best
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